From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:53:41 +0900 From: Yasunori Goto Subject: Re: setup_per_zone_pages_min(): zone->lock vs. zone->lru_lock In-Reply-To: <20080930094017.5ed2938a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <1222723206.6791.2.camel@ubuntu> <20080930094017.5ed2938a.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20080930103748.44A3.E1E9C6FF@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com Cc: Andy Whitcroft , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki List-ID: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:20:05 +0200 > Gerald Schaefer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:36 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > The allocator protects it freelists using zone->lock (as we can see in > > > rmqueue_bulk), so anything which manipulates those should also be using > > > that lock. move_freepages() is scanning the cmap and picking up free > > > pages directly off the free lists, it is expecting those lists to be > > > stable; it would appear to need zone->lock. It does look like > > > setup_per_zone_pages_min() is holding the wrong thing at first look. > > > > I just noticed that the spin_lock in that function is much older than the > > call to setup_zone_migrate_reserve(), which then calls move_freepages(). > > So it seems that the zone->lru_lock there does (did?) have another purpose, > > maybe protecting zone->present_pages/pages_min/etc. > > > Maybe. The zone->lru_lock() have been used before memory hotplug code was implemented. But I can't find any reason why it have been used. > > > Looks like the need for a zone->lock (if any) was added later, but I'm not > > sure if makes sense to take both locks together, or if the lru_lock is still > > needed at all. > > > At first look, replacing zone->lru_lock with zone->lock is enough... > This function is an only one function which use zone->lru_lock in page_alloc.c > And zone_watermark_ok() which access zone->pages_min/low/high is not under any > locks. So, taking zone->lru_lock here doesn't seem to be necessary... I agree. Bye. -- Yasunori Goto -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org